faces of the Mesa Verde, being of the same strata. All along 
the canon - Some 5 miles - There Are bold points - promontories 
projecting forward toward the creek - They are near 100 feet 
high and the vertical escarpements are often several hundreds. 
Gannett desired to make a station on one of the most 'western 
of these. It was the intention to make camp low down so as to 
favor him. By the middle of the afternoon we came to the end 
of irrigation. The water all along had been yellow with alkali 
and finally ceased to run. We encamped by a tolerable clear 
pool, and in a sage crush flat. Gannett succeded in mailing a 
station and on the morning of the 
28th. August Sta. 66 and 67 
We followed the valley down some three miles and striking 
an Indian trail that led toward the South West. The identical 
direction we desired to march. We reached the West fork of 
Yellow Greek some 3 miles above the forks and passed up between 
two high green buttes that stood upon the Mesa-like ridge which 
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Mson the East side of the Dolores. This flat ridge is of ITo. 1 
which dip always from the Dolores, giving a dish-like basin, in 
which the shales have been preserved. (See map) Some of the 
buttes of shale stand well'iupon the divide between Yellow Creek 
and the Lower Dolores. From one of these an extended view can 
be had of the South West of Colorado. The Mesa Verde, CarrIso, 
